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Impending Winter Storm

Due to the impending storm, all classes and activities at Kean’s main campus in Union, Kean Ocean and Kean Skylands will operate remotely on Sunday, January 25, and Monday, January 26. 

The University will observe a Winter Wellness Day on Tuesday, January 27, following the storm. Classes and activities will not run, and employees are not expected to work. 

Due to ongoing power problems at the Kean Ocean Gateway Building, all classes and activities at Kean Ocean will also be conducted remotely on Friday, January 23, and Saturday, January 24. This only applies to Kean Ocean. 

Only essential personnel should report to work as scheduled during the remote period or on Tuesday. Employees with questions about their status should consult their supervisor. 

Keanu’s Kitchen will remain open for residential students on the Union campus from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday. 

All vehicles parked on the Union campus must be relocated to the Vaughn-Eames overnight parking lot by 6 p.m. on Saturday to allow for storm cleanup. Vehicles parked elsewhere on campus are subject to relocation. 

Kean Provost Named Summer Visiting Professor at MIT

Apr 02, 2019
Kean University Provost and Vice President Jeffrey H. Toney

Kean Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jeffrey H. Toney, Ph.D., has been named a visiting professor and scholar for the summer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the top universities in the nation.

Toney will head to Cambridge, Mass. on July 1 to begin serving the appointment as visiting professor and scholar in linguistics and philosophy. He will give several invited lectures across MIT’s School of Sciences and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences about his interdisciplinary research spanning humanities, the sciences and the arts. He will also take part in seminars, reading groups and colloquia; and conduct research to develop a book on the late Thomas S. Kuhn, an influential philosopher and mentor with whom Toney studied as a post-doctoral student at MIT.

“I am thrilled and honored to be selected for this prestigious appointment,” Toney said. “I am very grateful for President Farahi’s support of this exciting, rare opportunity.”

The appointment also represents an opportunity for Kean. While at MIT, Toney said he will work to establish networks with research groups and start-up companies facilitating opportunities for Kean students to pursue internships and research projects at both MIT and its neighbor, Harvard University.

“This appointment is a well-deserved honor for Dr. Toney and Kean University,” President Dawood Farahi, Ph.D., said. “He has been a pioneer for undergraduate research here at Kean and this opportunity will no doubt open more doors for him and our students.”

One Kean student already completed an internship at SurgiBox, an MIT laboratory initiative, and another student is going to the Institute as an intern this summer.

“This is an incredible opportunity for our students to experience not only MIT, but to learn about start-ups and entrepreneurship,” Toney said. “During my time as a visiting professor and scholar at MIT, I will be working with a wide range of departments and programs, and actively seeking connections between our academic programs and their independent study opportunities and need for internships within their research groups. This is just the beginning.”

In his lectures, Toney said he plans to speak on the link between the sciences and humanities, and on the importance of interdisciplinary problem solving. “Many of the most exciting and innovative discoveries are emerging from the intersection of different disciplines,” he said. “Think of the iPhone, born from the integration of multimedia technology, materials science, design and the study of the human-computer interface.”

Toney was sponsored for the appointment by Bradford Skow, Ph.D., Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Skow holds the endowed chair position formerly held by Kuhn. The provost said he also has the option to continue his work beyond the summer, into 2020.

Toney earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Virginia, and his master’s degree and Ph.D. at Northwestern University. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Medical School) and MIT.

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